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I’m having trouble keeping up with reviewing everything I want to after I read it. Even if I take out the books that I don’t want to review it still seems quite overwhelming when there are also other things I would like to post about like how cute Richard Armitage is ( see picture of Armitage above in North and South posted solely so I could look at him for awhile when I open my blog…. longing sigh) or how I really need another marathon round of Jane Eyre adaptations or even the fact that my son now has four teeth! So I am going to sum up some of my most recent reads will nice little stereotypes, adjective, rambling blurbs….when I read them for some reason I hear my husband’s voice…maybe I am channeling him since stereotyping and not writing complete sentences about books makes me cringe but we’ll give it a go!

The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova: Smart, intellectual, artistic, learned a lot about Impressionism, involving but kind of lost me a little in the end…good read though, like it better than The Historian I think.

Jane Bites Back by Michael Thomas Ford: Jane Austen, Vampires, couldn’t get into it, not Jane….not her way of thinking, bearing or speech patterns even if she lived in modern world, trouble with my suspension of belief on this one, sat it down and went back a lot, also not really a woman’s voice to me which could be part of it, also Lord Byron was off to me as well. I can handle her characters in these books better but Jane herself..it just did not feel right to me.

Fallen by Lauren Kate: Dark, Gothic Teen, Angels….wait a minute……well I enjoyed this one too….but did kind of feel like I was possibly almost reading the same book in many ways….different premise though so good as well.

Moo! Moo ! What Are You? by Begin Smart Books: This is in William’s personal opinion and is no way a review by Stiletto Storytime or endorsed by this Blog in any way…he feels we should re-read this book on a hourly to every other minute basis, Best Book of all time in his lifetime (11months) hands down so far… petting the Kitty’s fur is extremely diverting and stimulating, just wish there was a Duck since that is the sound we are working on….other than that 5 stars!!!!